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The expense of the three frontier custom-houses is greater than the revenue they produce, but entries in Azua, Monte Cristi and Puerto Plata increased significantly after the frontier guard began its patrolling. Incidentally the guard has helped to keep the boundary line in place. In the seaports most of the loading and unloading is done by lighters, the wharves generally being small affairs.
However, at present he cannot dream that we are after him, and if we can but come upon him unawares we shall make short work of him." No news whatever was obtained of the schooner until the headland of La Catarina was passed, but at the large village of Azua they learned that she had anchored for a night in the bay five days before.
The pilot on board would have taken her through, but Frank was unwilling to encounter any risk, unless absolutely necessary. At Jaquemel he learnt that the schooner had put in there a fortnight before, but neither there nor at any point after leaving Azua had she been seen since that time. She had sailed west.
The amount of rainfall varies in different parts of the country, being lightest in the arid districts of Monte Cristi, Azua and Barahona.
Clays of various colors, found in the interior of the island, are suitable for the manufacture of paints. Gypsum is found, especially in Azua province, and the presence of kaolin and feldspar in the province of Santo Domingo, south of the central range, offers a possibility of porcelain manufacture. Petroleum has been found in large quantities in the vicinity of Azua.
There is further a main road or rather trail westward from Azua along Lake Enriquillo and leading on to Port-au-Prince; another from Azua northwesterly through the fertile valley of San Juan, also leading into Haiti; and two perilous trails branching off from the latter road and running through remote mountain regions to Santiago and La Vega.
Other villages are San Jose de Ocoa, also known as Maniel, 18 miles northeast of Azua, founded in 1844 in a picturesque region; Tubano, 34 miles northwest of Azua; El Cercado, 12 miles southwest of Las Matas de Farfan; and Comendador, near the Haitian frontier, 13 miles west of Las Matas de Farfan, the seat of one of the inland custom-houses.
"I have perceived some signs of desertion in a house or two that we have passed," said Azua. "But these brothers of yours when will they return?" "Indeed I wish I knew," sighed Aimee. "I believe that depends on the First Consul." "The First Consul has so much to do, it is a pity their return should depend upon his memory.
The modern lands are the coast plains and the small terraces on the south of the central range and on the south of the Baboruco mountains, the Maguana, Azua and Neiba valleys, small areas on the north coast at the foot of the mountains, and the marshes and Yuna River delta at the head of Samana Bay.
"You have fine scenery here, no doubt, and a climate which you enjoy: but there! what streets and palaces what theatres what libraries and picture-galleries and what society!" "Is it not true, however," said Azua, "that all the world is alike to her where her brother is?" "This is L'Etoile," said Aimee.
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